Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt
Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt (birth name: Thomas Henry Sutton Bucknall-Estcourt ; April 4, 1801 - January 6, 1876 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House between 1829 and 1832 and again from 1835 to 1865 of Commons and was Minister of the Interior for a few months in 1859 .
Life
Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt was the fourth of nine children and eldest son of Thomas Grimston Bucknall-Estcourt , who was also a member of the House of Commons between 1805 and 1826 and again from 1832 to 1847, and his wife Eleanor Sutton. One of his five younger brothers was Major General James Bucknall-Estcourt , who took part in the Crimean War , among other things . His grandfather Thomas Estcourt was also a member of the lower house between 1790 and 1806. After attending the prestigious Harrow School he began studying at Oriel College of the University of Oxford , which he in 1826 with a Master of Arts graduated (MA).
On March 13, 1829 Bucknall-Estcourt was first elected to the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Marlborough until December 10, 1832 . On August 21, 1830, he married Lucy Sarah Sotheron, the daughter of Admiral Frank Sotheron. He was elected for the Conservative Tories on January 6, 1835 again as a member of the House of Commons, in which he now until February 12, 1844 the constituency of Devizes and then from February 12, 1844 to 1865 the constituency of North Wiltshire represented. On July 17, 1839 he changed his name first to Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron and in 1853 to Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt.
On February 20, 1858 Sotheron-Estcourt, the 1852 member of the Privy Council was supported by Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby appointed to the government in which he until March 3, 1859 Office of the Welfare Minister (President of the Poor law Board) held that deals with the implementation of the 1834 adopted Poor law (Poor law) concerned. On March 3, 1859 he took over as part of a government reshuffle from Spencer Horatio Walpole, the office of Home Secretary , which he held until the end of the term of the Earl of Derby as Prime Minister on June 12, 1859.
Since Sotheron-Harcourt, the temporarily the office of a magistrate (justice of the peace) and the Deputy Lieutenant of County held, died childless, his inheritance passed to his nephew George Sotheron-Estcourt over the 1874 to 1885 also a deputy of the lower house was and in 1903 as 1st Baron Estcourt raised to hereditary nobility and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .
Web links
- Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt at Hansard (English)
- Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Pleydell-Bouverie | President of the Poor Law Board 1858–1859 |
Charles Gordon-Lennox |
| Spencer Horatio Walpole |
Home Secretary 1859 |
George Cornewall Lewis |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sotheron-Estcourt, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sotheron-Estcourt, Thomas Henry Sutton (full name); Bucknall-Estcourt, Thomas Henry Sutton (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1801 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1876 |